Tag: bus services
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The Age: Bid to keep bonus transport in place
The public transport improvements that will be provided during the Commonwealth Games has demonstrated that the government has the capability to fund service improvements. The Age has reported on the Public Transport Users Association’s call to ensure that these service improvements remain: IMPROVED public transport services for the Commonwealth Games are proof that Melburnians can,…
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PTUA Southeast Branch Ready for Action
Tonight marked the inaugural meeting of the PTUA’s Southeast Branch with the aim of providing local residents with a local voice to advocate and lobby for improved public transport. Melbourne’s southeast is one of Australia’s fastest growing urban areas and the City of Greater Dandenong is a major employment generator for Melbourne. The role and…
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Maroondah Leader: Business let down at clean-up
The Ringwood Transit City Community Coalition’s (RTCCC) efforts with Clean Up Australia Day were recognised by the Maroondah Leader: THEY were few in numbers, but the Ringwood Transit City Community Coalition held up the fight in Maroondah for the Business Clean Up Australia Day. Sandra Hardiman said she was disappointed more local traders did not…
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Croydon Conservation Society AGM
The Croydon Conservation Society (CCS) held its annual general meeting this evening and featured Cr. Steve Beardon as their guest speaker. Cr. Beardon is renowned for being the founder of Residents Against Graffiti Everywhere (RAGE) a community lobby group which seeks the rapid removal of graffiti, community education and stronger enforcement of vandals. As a…
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MAV Transporting Communities into 2030
Over the past two days I attended a conference conducted by the MAV focused on public transport and the goal of increasing public transport modal share from the current 9% to the goal of 20% by 2020. The conference made it clear that the goal of 20% modal share by 2020 must happen to secure…
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Clean Up Australia Day
This morning along with members of the Ringwood Transit City Community Coalition (RTCCC) I assisted in cleaning up Ringwood as part of Clean Up Australia Day. Clean Up Australia Day is an annual event where volunteers clean, fix and conserve the environment. The Business Clean Up Day is held on the 28th of February while…
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The Age: Public transport on track for relief
The Age has today reported on rising speculation about the contents of the upcoming Transport and Liveability Statement. This statement aims to achieve integration between transport, planning and budgetary outcomes – an extremely noticeable failure of the much criticised Metropolitan Transport Plan (released November 2005) and Melbourne 2030. It is no secret that Melbourne’s bus…
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MX: Bus overhaul needed
The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has called for a radical overhaul of Melbourne’s bus network as part of the upcoming Transport and Liveability Statement to ensure that bus routes operate in a direct, frequent and efficient manner. Today’s MX reported on this issue in regard to the unnecessary complexity of Melbourne’s bus network. City…
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Maroondah Leader: Council asked to get back on board the bus
At the Maroondah Council meeting of the 6th of February I presented a petition from residents seeking a continuation of the walking school bus program. The petition and the rationale behind the Walking School Bus program was reported in the Maroondah Journal: PARENTS have lodged a petition asking Maroondah Council to review its commitment to…
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PTUA Outer East Branch – First Meeting for 2006
The Outer East Branch of the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) met tonight for its first meeting in 2006. Items discussed included the upcoming Transport and Liveability Statement. In the words of Steve Bracks this much anticipated statement “would address an imbalance between road and public transport” (Leader Newspapers, Tuesday 14th of February 2006) and…